[aprssig] OLPC $199 laptop again

Jim Tittsler ZL2IA at OnNZ.net
Sun Nov 16 14:26:07 EST 2008


On Nov 17, 2008, at 06:31, Scott Miller wrote:

> I found the Sugar interface clunky and confusing, and inconsistently
> implemented.  As much as I'd like to see this project succeed, I'm
> afraid I really don't have that much faith in it.  Not when regular
> netbooks are heading into the same price range.  Maybe if the software
> suite has really been drastically improved in the last 9 months, but I
> haven't heard anything about that.

If you haven't upgraded to 8.2.0 yet, you definitely should.  Several  
rough edges have been smoothed off.
   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Olpc-update




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